Congrats to Josh Letourneau

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Posted by Karen Mattonen CAC CSP on July 3, 2008 at 4:54pm in Press Releases and Announcements

To all of you who have a Subscription to Fast Company -- Look at Page 14 -bottom Left Corner, Josh was the Featured Member of the Month, great quote, and short Bio.. spoke to Josh about this and he was Very Modest about it all - he mentioned that there is more to come in the coming weeks - so keep your eyes peeled to the fastcompany website... Josh writes a Careers blog at Fast company, and also acts as the Co-ordinator of the Careers group.

Hey Josh, there are definitely good things coming your way.. Congrats!!

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Permalink Reply by Rayanne on July 3, 2008 at 7:31pm: Yes, this is great. I was very excited over last weekend, when I saw the familiar Josh L. pose over the computer and read his quote. Very cool. Way to go, Josh....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Karen Mattonen CAC CSP on July 3, 2008 at 7:35pm: Rayanne,
Yep, I had missed this till yesterday, and hadn't seen your post on Josh's blog until I had posted.. It is pretty cool to see good things like this happen to good people.. thought it should be definitely broadcasted...

Have a great weekend..
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Permalink Reply by Maren Hogan on July 4, 2008 at 12:48am: GO JOSH!!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 4, 2008 at 12:53pm: Thanks, Karen, Maren, and Rayanne :) That's really cool of you. Most of my contacts and friends at Fast Company (and Fortune magazine) are not directly recruiting related or I'd send some serious traffic over here!!!

I'd love to share some of our conversations and how they stand to potentially impact our profession . . . but I don't know if anyone here would be interested. Seriously, jeez, I have had some pretty amazing 'talent' discussions over the last 6 months with thinkers outside our space :) I'd love to introduce some 'folks' (as Georgey W says), but Talent Acquisition and Recruiting have a weird brand in the rest of the business world (which trust me, I'm trying to change . . . but I'm just a little person). Thinkers in other realms of business think we operate in our own little myopic world and don't care about anything outside it - of course, this is not true.

Anyway - Thanks, Friends :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Recruiting Animal on July 4, 2008 at 6:14pm: Good for you, Josh. You gave me a heads up that you had been covered somewhere but you didn't tell me which magazine. At least I don't think you did. The only thing is I like the new (mean) photo better. (Thanks Karen).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Fest on July 5, 2008 at 4:16am: Saw the article, seems like I've come full circle. I think I came across your twitter post about 24 hours ago. I look forward to following you going forward.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 5, 2008 at 11:33am: Animal, thanks for the kind words :) Actually, I didn't even know about this until Rayanne mentioned it - literally, I found it at 11pm a few nights ago thinking Rayanne was kidding with me!

Hey, it's funny with the pic we might use on social media versus other areas. This one here is me 'deep in thought' with my webcam . . . I guess with the flip side being one half-clothed and smiling! (you know what I mean - we see those quite a bit nowadays!) :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Joshua Letourneau on July 5, 2008 at 11:36am: Hi, Jonathon - good to hear from you :) Yeah, I think I may have come across like Twitter (micro-blogging) is a bad thing, but it certainly isn't. I just don't see much discretion with it - for me, it's a way to further our value prop/professional relationship with candidates . . . but I try not to publicize every detail of my personal life :) Hey, maybe I'm more guarded than the average bear.?. I wonder if it's just a 'guy-thing'? I wonder how the early 30s' mindset compares with the early 40s, early 50s, etc? I wonder how geography or socioeconomics fit in as well (like where we were born & raised, etc.?); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Recruiting Animal on July 5, 2008 at 5:19pm: Josh, Rayanne likes to be called RayRay now. (That used to be her baby name).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bill Vick on July 5, 2008 at 6:22pm: Josh - nobody more deserving to be recognized for the feedback and comments you give to our community of recruiters. Congratulations and good things do happen to good people. :); ▶ Reply to This